[UK] Male-born security guard bags dream job as female police officer
A security guard who was born a man has revealed how she is set to fulfil her lifelong dream - pounding the beat as a woman police officer.
Transgender Jamie Lee Curtis, 29, from South Shields, Northumbria, has bagged her dream job after surgery gave her confidence to become a woman.
Miss Curtis, whose male name was Jamie Leigh, will be a Police Community Support Officer in the north east, although she does not want to reveal the exact police force.
She was offered the position following a series of interviews at the end of last year. Miss Curtis said she realised she was female when she was tiny.

[MN, USA] MN Family Council launches campaign to repeal trans-inclusive school policies
The Minnesota Family Council, the state’s oldest anti-LGBT group, has launched a campaign to convince legislators to repeal the Minnesota State High School League’s transgender-inclusive high school athletics policy. MFC’s action follow those of the Minnesota Child Protection League which launched a petition to legislators last week.

[NC, USA] Transgender woman booted from city restroom
Police officer told Democratic Party activist to leave amid ordinance debate
Democratic Party activist Janice Covington Allison says she was at first confused when a police officer approached her Monday night in a restroom at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center and told her she couldn’t be there.
“I was looking in the mirror primping my hair – cause I had just crossed the street in the wind – and the police woman said, ‘I’ve had complaints. You have to leave,’” said Allison, the chairwoman of diversity and outreach for the N.C. Democratic Party.